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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The First Booke. № 12. A wise man onely may properly be said to enjoy life


His life is short, who present times neglects, 
	Feares times to come, and hath past-times forgot: 
Or rather, while he breaths his Age, hee makes 
	A base abode in time, but liveth not; 
For onely hee leades, in judicious eyes, 
The longest life, who lives, till he be wise.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 1. How to behave ones selfe in all occasions
  2. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 21. To one, who did confide too much in the sound temperament, and goodly constitution of his bodily complexion
  3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 31. As it was a precept of antiquity, to leane more to vertue, then parentage: so is it a tenet of christianity, to repose more trust on the blood of christ, then our owne merits
  4. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 18. That we ought not to be sorie at the losse of worldly goods
  5. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 25. Vertue, and goodnesse are very much opposed by the selfe-conceit, that many men have of their owne sufficiencie


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